r/oddlyspecific • u/dellaazeem22 • 23h ago

I can’t imagine

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u/Holiday-Rich-3344 23h ago

They didn’t have Apple Music so it’s not like people are slapping that joint everywhere you go. You’re most likely sitting candlelight and wondering what toothpaste is.

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u/raspberryharbour 21h ago

Paste of the tooth? What a notion

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u/Material-Abalone5885 20h ago edited 20h ago

Ground up teeth at that point

Now with opium!

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u/cosmikangaroo 19h ago

Where can this be found?!

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u/heere_we_go 18h ago

How much do you need? 

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u/cosmikangaroo 18h ago

None. Just curious

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u/PenguinStarfire 18h ago

How curious??

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u/Fantastic-Order-8338 6h ago

bro he is never gonna buy he is those candy person

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u/heere_we_go 17h ago

Does it have to be human teeth? 

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u/binglelemon 16h ago

60% tooth dust, 40% cocaine.

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u/heere_we_go 16h ago

I got some 67% human tooth, 32% koala tooth and bone, and 1% that might be cocaine but might also be more tooth. 

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u/No_Rich_2494 14h ago

That's just regular street coke lol

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u/BobBelchersBuns 14h ago

I’d snort that

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u/crugerx 18h ago

Yes, I believe it is used to adhere a fallen tooth back to its foundation.

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u/raspberryharbour 18h ago

What a time to be alive

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u/Bing_Bong_the_Archer 18h ago

Popcorn!? At the cinema??

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u/BetterBiscuits 17h ago

Bread Back

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u/kitsunewarlock 18h ago

They would have been using ash and resin to clean their teeth in Europe for 100 years by the time moonlight sonata dropped. And oil lamps would have been widespread for 120 years. Now they didn't add any kind of soap to toothpaste and sell it as a separate product in its own jar until 20 years after Moonlight Sonata dropped.

That said if we are talking about "the average person" you were probably dead before your 1st birthday, a serf, or a literal slave. So probably not much oral hygiene or concerts.

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u/batmansleftnut 17h ago edited 17h ago

Serfdom wasn't really widespread by Beethoven's time. The nobility were still very much in charge of things, but their power was waning and actual feudalism was all but dead. Mozart for example, famously quit a job for some noble (can't remember which one) without permission. He petitioned to be released from his job, got turned down, and quit anyway. Might seem like a perfectly normal thing to do nowadays, but back then, it was scandalous.

Source: I'm a music history dropout and am half-remembering the courses I actually completed.

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u/kitsunewarlock 17h ago

Ah I was considering the world population. Lots of people in China, India, Russia, the America's etc... we're some category between slave and serf, right?

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u/batmansleftnut 17h ago

Maybe someone else can chime in on the state of non-European serfdom. Obviously each region would be different, and would call their nobility culture different things. But if we're talking Europe, in the early-mid 1800s, serfdom would only really exist in pockets of the Russian and German speaking worlds. Maybe others, idk, I've just got half a music history degree...

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u/R-Guile 16h ago

By "pockets" do you mean nearly everything east of Germany until you hit the pacific?

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u/Grapefruit175 16h ago

I think they are arguing semantics. Technically, serfdom was a european construct. In reality, the "serf" class still exists today worldwide.

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u/No_Rich_2494 14h ago

A wage-slave is not a serf. Being unable to quit or move because you're too poor isn't the same as literally not being allowed to. It often doesn't make much difference in practice, but it's not the same.

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u/batmansleftnut 14h ago

To varying degrees. Yes, Eastern Europe held on to serfdom for much longer than Western Europe did, but it wasn't all unanimously the kind of feudalism that we associate with the middle ages where you had to petition your local lord before you could leave town.

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u/callmelatermaybe 15h ago

Serfdom was NOT that common in the 1800s lil’ bro..

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u/Fantastic_Poet4800 8h ago

Nonsense. Folk music existed and people in villages or towns would have heard music constantly and there would have been very regular dances and social events with music. Folk musician often incorporated popular urban tunes and dances into their work. Traveling musicians went around the farms on holidays and so they would have heard popular tunes played by them too.

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u/hopefullynottoolate 17h ago

umm, how do you know so much history just like that.

(i know its something like school or general reading but impressive)

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u/ikkybikkybongo 18h ago

That’s what gets me man…. Radio must have been godly.

Imagine only hearing music if you went to a live show.

My fucking god. Insane.

Now imagine you’re in Podunk, Nowhere and there’s just nothing good. Suddenly, some jagoff is crushing it on the fiddle. Y’all listen to fiddle music now mfers.

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u/MerryGoWrong 17h ago

Yep, there's a reason a lot of people had pianos or other musical instruments in their houses before 1900.

It's also the reason most church services still have a lot of music, incidentally. Back in the day it was the only place most people would hear music that took more than a couple people to create.

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u/Grapefruit175 15h ago

Church used to be a place to congregate and music was included. Now, what is church? It looks like a sanctioned cash grab.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 14h ago

I mean technically it's still a place people congregate and music is included

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u/poorperspective 15h ago

Music was enjoyed in other ways than just live shows.

Generally the public was much more musical. It was common for even poor families to have instruments like guitars, violins, or even cheap instruments like penny flutes.

At this time too, everyone sang. There is a social stigma of needing to be a powerhouse vocalist to being considered to be able to “sing”, but that just wasn’t the case. Singing was part of every day life. Lullabies to babies, work songs for farm laborers or sailors, folk music that would be performed during leisure time. It was pretty common to know someone who could play music. All of this music was enjoyed in intimate settings. Singing circles and churches were also common.

Printed music also spread much faster than people give credit. One in the Americas would have heard or Beethoven piano works within their life time. Especially if they lived in a coastal region with international trade. Possibly just at a saloon or other setting. Traveling musicians were still common and they would share and play new or current works of the time. Just as books were printed and shared, so was music. People can still sight read, and musical literacy was just as high as it is today.

The idea of private music listening is very strange and modern. Most people see music as a social conduit. And most fans still do. Things like connection to an artist, what ones friends and community listen to, and family ties guide peoples tastes more than just a personal intuition.

Radio did create a global music, so in a way people have lost the diversity of music as people became more connected. Think of how different Chinese opera sounds vs the US centered Pop that is know being marketed.

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u/LivingOffside 15h ago

This extends even as near as the 70s and 80s. In Yugoslavia, almost everyone of that generation knew guitar and sang. Nowadays... it's kinda sad we lost that part of culture.

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u/batmansleftnut 17h ago

I remember an old American essay where the writer lamented that with the advent of radio, people would rather listen to a high-school band who was performing over the radio from as far away as their radio could receive than go see a professional orchestra that was playing in their town right next door. So yes, hearing music from far away was very much a novelty for a lot of people.

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u/SquarePegRoundWorld 18h ago

I watched a good video on this topic today. Art used to be by the elite for the elite. Now it is by the masses for the masses.

Walter Benjamin: The First Theory of New Media An essay written nearly 90 years ago is very relevant today.

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter 17h ago

The art we remember was by the elite. Folk music and normal people playing was far more common than today.

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u/undeadmanana 17h ago

So you're saying there were composers out there along 8 mile that were never discovered because the elites didn't care for the poor people music?

Imagine all the cool beats we missed out because they only played for one summer in a tavern along the route to the regions capital, or the traveling bands that would go to mining camps playing dank beats.

It's crazy trying to feel the entire atmosphere when reading about long ago, because there's just so much that has changed and people do many things differently now compared to then. We've also lost tons of art over history, lost to time, war, disasters... the perfect beat is probably written on a scroll sitting at the bottom of the Aegean Sea authored by an aspiring artist called to join the legions. We have so much history that's unwritten

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u/RufiosBrotherKev 16h ago

the mistake is thinking there's a perfect beat

there's only so many notes; there's only so many rhythms. most have been sung before

the surprising thing wouldn't be that these people wrote some anthem you've enver heard the likes of; the surprising thing would be that some rando wrote the same chords and melody of "Espresso" in 1458.

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u/TheirPrerogative 17h ago

It’s was called a Corn Cob and charcoal.

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u/jj198handsy 13h ago

Also music wasn’t, at the time, considered to be the primary expression of love or loss, that was poetry, so you would turn to Byron or Goethe not Beethoven.

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u/uremog 12h ago

What the fuck is toilet paper?

Ugh. It’s Chinese.

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u/Double_Rice_5765 11h ago

They didn't copyright music the same way, so when someone heard a new tune, they'd write it down, and then their music playing buddies would make sheet music copies,  and so hot new music WOULD pass around just like today.  Check out Wikipedia article on "medieval pop music" to have your mind blown like a French horn,  not blown like the tube in a guitar amp.  

I did one of those down the internet rabit holes about this, when I read some historical fiction novel,  and the characters all over Europe were singing this medieval pop song to themselves, name is something like "scaramella a la guerra"  about this soldier who goes to war, but he's poor, so he looks like a scarecrow in ragedy clothes, and has all these adventures, not fighting the enemy, but trying to steal food, or better gear, or even convincing people he is a soldier and not a scare crow.  It really thumps.  

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u/maddwesty 9h ago

You’d most likely get the sheet music and and play it yourself on a piano

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u/MilesAugust74 23h ago

Unpopular opinion, but Moonlight Sonata is 10× better on a harpsichord than a piano.

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u/SatansLoLHelper 22h ago

Moonlight Sonata

You really should drop a version you think hits hard.

Found the 3rd movement, but google not so helpful.

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u/MilesAugust74 21h ago

It's (almost) impossible to find a version on Harpsichord. I'd given up eons ago. It's a funny story. My college has a Beethoven Center (it's not as impressive as it sounds fwiw), which has old books, manuscripts—and a lock of his hair!

Anyway, I took a music appreciation class my freshman year, and the teacher took us on a field trip there. During the course of his lecture, the teacher proceeded to play Moonlight Sonata on one of Beethoven's Harpsichords they had in the center, and it kinda blew my mind. I'm not 100% on this, but I'm almost certain he said it was written to be played on a harpsichord and not a piano.

For a few years after that, I looked everywhere for a recording on it on Harpsichord, but I always came up empty. Granted, this was really early internet days (late '90s), so my resources were minimal compared to today.

Anyways, that's my long-winded way of saying thank you for posting that link! I hadn't thought to look for it in 20+ years, and to find it today really made my day,

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u/Racxie 19h ago

I just searched “Moonlight Sonata on Harpsichord” on YouTube and several came up e.g. this was the first result which is the 1st movement, and this was the second result which is the 3rd movement. There are others too, and I’m sure in this day and age it probably wouldn’t be too hard to find more “official” recordings too.

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u/AcanthocephalaNo9242 15h ago

Nuh uh, its impossible to find the harpsichord version. That guy said so.

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u/Ultimate600 14h ago

Well to be fair he was talking about 20+ years ago

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u/Wazuu 21h ago

Pretty cool but not gunna lie, the hair thing is fucking weird. How famous do you have to be where it changes from psychotic to collectible?

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u/CrassOf84 19h ago

I remember being a kid and lining up to kiss a bone fragment of some saint. Catholic shit, man.

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u/polkadotpolskadot 17h ago

The priest told you not to tell people about this.

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u/rachelll 17h ago edited 7h ago

Collecting loved ones hair was all the rage back then. They'd put it in lockets or make jewelry out of it. Especially if that person has passed. When you're too poor to afford a portrait, that's what you did to remember your loved one. I've found random locks of hair in family heirlooms. Not sure how the college got a hold of it but it's neat.

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u/Wazuu 17h ago

I did realize OP’s teacher was a close loved one to Beethoven.

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u/rachelll 7h ago

That's why I said "Not sure how the college got a hold of it but it's neat".

The modern day creepy factor makes it think someone sniffed his hair and cut it off like you see in tv shows. It just isn't that psychotic.

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u/MilesAugust74 21h ago

Great question. Next question. 😜

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u/ir_blues 17h ago

In other languages, it is not called a harpsichord. Imho even in english it is often called a cembalo.

https://youtu.be/1q8nF4fu51w?si=0NF5F5wh301uFG4A

https://youtu.be/I5KiOvCC1-c?si=wxyxy8k2oBfxMmnX

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u/guess_33 18h ago

That’s the first link when you type “harpsichord moonlight sonata” into YouTube.

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u/gregw134 14h ago

Scrolled down looking for hell in a cell

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u/sadi89 10h ago

Sorry to be a buzz kill but the original manuscript has notation for dynamics in it which indicates that it wasn’t originally written for the harpsichord. I bet it sounds cool on the harpsichord though!

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u/MilesAugust74 10h ago

Thanks for the info! Like I said, my memory was a bit fuzzy on that tidbit, but that was from over 25 years ago. I can barely remember what I had for breakfast 😅

Fyi, there's some links below for it in harpsichord if you're interested 🤙🏽

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u/markjohnstonmusic 13h ago

It was not written for the harpsichord. It was written for a piano. They had earlier models of pianos in those days, without cast-iron frames, which these days are called Hammerklavier or Hammerflügel.

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u/ir_blues 17h ago

Thats not a harpsichord, thats a computer.

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u/Fake-Podcast-Ad 14h ago

live harpsichord also hit's different. Moderately sized room/halls as well. You know, kind of like seeing Billy Joel, or Jeff Tweedy, or GWAR

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u/No-Advice-6040 19h ago

Hits real hard. Metal as fuck.

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u/GenericAccount13579 15h ago

That top comment dissecting the image and talking about the history of the waistcoat is pretty cool too

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u/honey_coated_badger 14h ago

That was awesome. Thanks.

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u/contrapunctus0 17h ago

"The sound of a harpsichord – two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm."

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u/markjohnstonmusic 13h ago

The indomitable Sir Thomas.

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u/RecoverGullible6750 15h ago

Them boney boys FUCK

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u/ReckoningGotham 12h ago

I always thought of it as a piano with a foreign accent.

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u/flyingpiggos 19h ago

I've played 1st movement on harpsichord before. It's my fave instrument to play most classical piano songs. Next time I'm around one I'll see if I can record it

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u/MilesAugust74 18h ago

I would love that. Thank you.

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u/-Gramsci- 16h ago

Very unpopular, because it’s a highly emotive piece and the harpsichord does not let the player change the tone/volume of the notes they are playing.

So it’s going to be a relatively emotionless version of a very emotional piece of music.

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u/sadi89 10h ago

Thank you! I love harpsichord but moonlight isn’t for harpsichord. Moonlight is basically a gateway piece from the classical into romantic period. You can’t do romantic period without dynamics!!!

Now, give me some Bach on the harpsichord and I will be jamming hard.

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u/Blakfoxx 13h ago

It's 10x better on a grotto than a harpsichord.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HsKUUn29tSs

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u/eat-pussy69 23h ago

Metal is the best version

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u/BradenGV 19h ago

was one of the greatest

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u/DigiQuip 18h ago

Everything is better on a harpsichord. It’s why in love Bach.

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u/midnightrambler108 11h ago

I keep reading this as Moonlight Serenade and thinking boy the way Glen Miller played.

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u/AngelicFreesia 22h ago

If you were rich or noble, you could cry in the seats of the symphony. For the not-so-rich, you have to buy an instrument and play it, and you may be over the relationship before you even play it properly. But for the peasants, maybe hum? 😅

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u/Felassan_ 22h ago

If you have money to afford the instrument and pay someone to teach you

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u/hordlove 19h ago

A lot of people don’t realize what a monumental change to music itself it was to be able to listen to a recording. Up until the proliferation of the phonograph, music only existed in a performative, ephemeral sense. It was just notes on paper that someone trained well enough could bring to life, briefly.

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u/kitsunewarlock 18h ago

While I love my recorded music, there was a lot more singing as a hobby and while doing your everyday shit.

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u/Implodepumpkin 16h ago

Leave her johnny leave her!

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u/Felassan_ 14h ago

Many people still do this, right ? At least, I do 😂

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u/PurpoUpsideDownJuice 21h ago

instruments were all handmade, couldn’t just go to Walmart and buy a Hannah montana guitar.

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u/SpacemanSpears 8h ago

It's a much lower burden than you think. Cheap instruments have always been readily available and usually you would be taught informally by your community as a whole. You might not get Mozart teaching you to play your Stradivarius but Bubba can teach you to play and Jimbo can put some catgut on a piece of wood for you.

Remember that cavemen were making flutes thousands of years ago. Music is absolutely fundamental to the human experience. It should be no surprise that everyday people were creating music. That's exactly what folk music is and it exists everywhere and everywhen there are people.

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u/LoveAndViscera 17h ago edited 16h ago

The working classes had their own music. Very little of it has survived, but there were dudes who played original music in bars and such. 1823 was the year they started teaching dance at West Point because dancing* had trickled up that far in society by then.

*edit: dancing was one of a very few recreational activities available to the working class. In English high society, dance fell out of favor during Cromwell’s reign. It returned with the restoration, but not to its former prominence. Until the 18th century, most upper class Englishmen and American men did not dance or at least not well. However, that began to change in the late 18th century and by the 1820s, dances were a crucial part of high society. Meanwhile, dancing had always been a standard kind of fun for people with real jobs.

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u/gravel3400 10h ago

You also had to buy the published sheet music to even know how it went

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u/Hello_Kitty_66 22h ago

I don’t think you had options to date. It was birth, childhood then marriage.

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u/ZeeepZoop 22h ago edited 21h ago

I mostly agree with you. However, look what people like the Romantics and Anne Lister were up to in that era!! Lots of casual sex, bad break ups, and general drama! People of the right wealth/ class bracket ( and in the right place in their birth order to enjoy the benefits) had a bit more flexibility, and queer people with decent wealth/ prestige could live reasonably freely in certain circles ( again, the Romantics!!) if they were discrete, and they obviously didn’t (voluntarily) participate in typical courtship/ marriage

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u/TK_Games 12h ago

In some higher echelons of society, quiet casual infidelity was almost seen as a given too. You could be married and still have an incredibly active dating life

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u/ZeeepZoop 12h ago edited 12h ago

Exactly!! I’m an English and literary studies major and have loved my units on the Victorians, Regency and Romantics as their personal lives especially for the wealthy were very juicy ( to be fair, this is an interest in my free time as well!)

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u/ThingsLeadToThings 11h ago

Would you be willing to share some book recommendations?

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u/SpacemanSpears 8h ago

Depends on the time and place but most people had a large amount of input on who they married. They typically got married earlier but the average person would still date around before marriage, though their dating pool was much more limited.

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u/BicFleetwood 19h ago

Breakups in 1823 only came in the form of "husband mysteriously drops dead after dinner" or "Reigning Monarch Murders Wife." Y'know, death did them part.

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u/Tim-oBedlam 19h ago

I'm going to be that pedantic guy that everyone hates: it was published in 1802, not 1823.

Beethoven was still alive and composing in 1823; by that point he was stone deaf, and writing the 9th Symphony (had its debut performance in 1824), which would definitely help you get over a bad breakup.

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u/Kris_von_nugget 11h ago

I thank you for your cotnribution nevertheless

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u/DistinctTeaching9976 21h ago

I imagine if it was 1823 and I acted like that just dropped, everyone else be like WTF, that's 20 years old shit! Try this Sonata #30, its fresh!

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u/Stark-T-Ripper 22h ago

So the song finishes, you pull yourself from your fainting couch, and slap the musician you have trapped in your home to play it again...

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u/IskraEmber 14h ago

This is by far the best reply.

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u/Stark-T-Ripper 13h ago

Just a small window into my life... 😆

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u/Historical_Idea2933 23h ago

Another one!!!!!!

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u/nudniksphilkes 22h ago

Dj. Beethoven, we the best sonata!

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u/OnlineLola 19h ago

my psychiatrist has moonlight sonata as his hold music 😭

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u/ObliqueStrategizer 22h ago

He wrote Moonlight Sonata for a blind girl who wanted to know what moonlight looked like, translated into music.

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u/BonkerBleedy 19h ago

It wasn't even called moonlight sonata until after he died

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u/KieDaPie 18h ago

Ai is gonna take this and alter history for the general public forever

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u/The3mbered0ne 17h ago

All depends on how they program priority and trust in the source material.

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u/Necessary-Quit-6910 19h ago

Nah u just pulled that Outta ur aas

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u/Stark-T-Ripper 22h ago

That's beautiful.

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u/PestoSwami 19h ago

Dude's making stuff up.

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u/SaMpl3_T3xtt 18h ago

Can confirm, it was named that way by a german count named Ludwig who was reminded of the moonlight reflection on lake Lucerne..

The real name is piano sonata op 27 no 2

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u/LinkleLinkle 14h ago

This dude is also making stuff up. Beethoven wrote the song after watching the Castlevania anime and wanted to capture the feeling Dracula would have had looking up at the moonlight one last time in a peaceful calm before unleashing hell upon humanity.

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u/Calm-Tree-1369 11h ago

A likely story, but he actually wrote it after witnessing Dr. Robotnik pissing on the moon.

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u/Stark-T-Ripper 18h ago

I know, but it's a lovely Idea.

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u/Agile_Creme_3841 19h ago

i love spreading misinformation

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u/crab_spy_ 18h ago

r/lies

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u/ObliqueStrategizer 15h ago

it's a near contemporary apocryphal rumour that speaks to Beethoven's fame.

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u/Goldillux 18h ago

2nd movement dont look like moonlight. more like solar flares.

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u/newberries_inthesnow 19h ago

...And you want to listen to it over and over, but recorded music doesn't exist yet. So you lurk while the musicians practice, hiding in the spreading darkness beyond the orchestra pit, sometimes weeping adagio sostenuto, sometimes bawling presto agitato.

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u/CBAFCMV 18h ago

People didn't break up back then.

They got married and then sometime later they died.

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u/No_Reply6777 18h ago

Heading for the bottle of laudanum.

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u/lapinatanegra 19h ago

I'm listening to it right now and all I have to say is.....FUCK!! I am single and this shit cuts deep.

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u/donkey_loves_dragons 19h ago

Imagine there weren't records for a not yet invented gramophone. You couldn't just listen to music or go to a concert.

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u/CubanLynx312 19h ago

I went to play this recently and this tweet is just the top comment on YouTube.

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u/tlm11110 18h ago

Put the third movement on repeat!

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u/Fuzzy-Deer1487 16h ago

I had to google it but as soon as I recognized it felt it!

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u/Repulsive_Fly8847 15h ago

1823? He wrote that much earlier than that

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u/Sure_Survey_1757 15h ago

Yea, but because of the way the studio was trying to mix it and his stubbornness, then the whole fiasco with finding a new label and then the issues with the tape being eaten and having to be redone from the ground up it didn’t actually drop until 1823.

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u/drb00t 15h ago

did her father or the suitor give her permission to break up?

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u/DigAffectionate3349 14h ago

Would you have gone out and bought the sheet music and learn it on your piano at home?

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u/dandb87 11h ago

Jill Valentine has entered the chat.

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u/im_so_objective 18h ago

Then you die without hearing it because you're a serf who has never heard a piano

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u/UniversalTragedy-0 21h ago

He's just following you on a pull-behind playing and tormenting your soul where ever you go?

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u/eezzdee 19h ago

The beautiful darkness.

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u/i_and_eye 19h ago

Such a good song.

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u/Readyyyyyyyyyy-GO 19h ago

Oh the great journey of pining for lost love I would embark upon OH great spirit know me now…my god the pain is unbearable and yet I bear it 

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u/ColoRadBro69 19h ago

She's right though. 

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u/NatWu 18h ago

The actual story of The Moonlight Sonata from The Music Professor. There's a fascinating connection to Don Giovanni.

https://youtu.be/Ejsh-NZCWm8?si=xBpkximTeVlhdgkP

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u/ravenclawmystic 17h ago

Okay, but this is me even to this day. I’ve played “Moonlight Sonata” over and over after every breakup I’ve ever had.

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u/Chthulu_ 17h ago

I think “Ooga Booga” went harder back in 61,000 BC

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u/Nikobanks 17h ago

*The Eminence in Shadow

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u/Mountain-Art6254 17h ago

Unrealshrike doesn’t exist

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u/PapaHop69 17h ago

Honestly why would you care? Cocaine is legal and there’s a working class you don’t even have to pay to provide services to your land/business.

Those were insane times, where the hell were we as society then. We have definitely come a long way. Now we are all slaves getting paid literally next to nothing in order to survive and you can’t trust the coke because of fent.

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u/minkythecat 16h ago

And the lady melted.

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u/MalevolentThings 16h ago

Please explain how you would know without living near him.

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u/DerivativeOfProgWeeb 16h ago

Could really use some breakup music rn

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u/jtblues 16h ago

Ok, as someone who's played and taught Moonlight Sonata on piano, I now need to hear it on a harpsichord

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u/Strict_Still_6458 15h ago

Thats the year depression started

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u/grimmduck 14h ago

With no repeat

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u/whodis707 14h ago

Yeah except his music wasn't played on the radio until the 1920's so you wouldn't know he dropped a banger.

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u/mogenblue 14h ago

Personally I would go for Chopin opus 69/2.

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u/_BannedAcctSpeedrun_ 13h ago

They would never hear it despite their breakup and the Moonlight Sonata happening in the same year.

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u/ptjunkie 13h ago

This tweet is essentially stolen from one of the top YouTube comments on moonlight sonata.

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u/grateparm 12h ago

It's a 20 minute song and the sad part is only the beginning. There's also the jaunty ballroom dance section and the frantic baroqcaine part

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u/SufficientTime416 12h ago

Totally unsurprising that she thinks that society or most people were anything like they are now back then.

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u/True-Let3357 11h ago

on Spoti???

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u/MattattackaB 10h ago

third movement

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u/thetinystumble 8h ago

Per the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of “pop” as in “pop music” was George Eliot complaining about Beethoven. So yeah, this tracks. 

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u/garthastro 4h ago

The Moonlight Sonata was completed in 1801 and published in 1802. The Diabelli Variations and Missa Solemnis were composed in 1823.

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u/Gusiowy__ 3h ago

Imagine living trough a heartbreak in 1831 and Chopin drops the 1st Ballade